Reps and Civil Society Organisations seeks ways to end Perennial Petroleum Products Scarcity in Nigeria

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The House of Representatives in collaboration with civil society organisations (CSOs) has organised a two-day ‘Stakeholders Technical Roundtable’ on Perennial Petroleum Products Scarcity in Nigeria: Problems, Prospects and Sustainable Solution.

The event, which is aimed at ending fuel scarcity in the country, kicked off in Abuja yesterday as put together by the House Committee on Civil Society Organisations and Development Partners.

Chairman of the committee, Hon. Peter Akpatason, said the challenge of petroleum products scarcity, which was created by Nigerians, has continued to defy solutions and has therefore become an embarrassment and a major stumbling block in the path of national development.

“One might want to ask, why this committee is interested in this issue as one ordinarily may be tempted to suggest that this theme should be discussed by the House Committee on Petroleum alone.
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“The answer is quite simple. Apart from the fact that all Nigerians have a role to play and are consumers of the product, the search for sustainable solutions to development challenges has to be an all-inclusive affair,” Akpatason said.

For his part, the Speaker of the House, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, who was represented by his deputy, Hon. Yusuf Sulaimon Lasun, said the country was yet to possess the technical know-how about the oil industry.

“We talk too much in this country. We don’t have the technology of oil, our problem in Nigeria is not because we have oil but because we failed to find out the nitty gritty of oil for the benefit of our people,” Lasun said.

Keynote speaker at the event, Mr. Osten Olorunsola, identified policy deficiencies, structural deforms and collapse, repetitive systemic failures, institutional weaknesses, corruption and sharp practices, lack of strategic planning and effects of globalisation as the menaces bedeviling the oil and gas sector.

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